We're still not there yet. From my friend
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> Step by step instructions:
...
> The "Digital Mix" setting will mix down
all PCMs to a stereo pair
> and output it on H/W Out 1 and 2.
What it does is mix things down to two stereo pairs, where you have to
raise, or lower two controls to get full sound. Alsamixer and Kmix
supports this, too.
> You should now have sound, but at a much lower
level than when you
> had "PCM Out 1" and "PCM Out 2" selected in the "Patchbay /
Router",
> so you might want to raise the volume output level in the
> application that is supposed to make some sound.
Actually, at the defaut setting, you get 0 sound.
> Another responder asked just what you were trying
to do, I told him
> you were just trying to play ogg/flac files through the card as
> line-level outputs into your home stereo. Yes?
That's right. I have everything turned up, and am working with PCM at
this point.
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Anders Dahnielson wrote:
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 1:30 AM, Brett McCoy wrote:
That's it, the master monitor level, it's what is used for the digital
mix (which is what is used for being able to monitor what is being
recorded while listening to audio that has been recorded. What is he's
trying to do? For applications that only use stereo out, channel 1 and
channel 2 would be used as the volume for the application (although
typically the application would have its own volume control, which is
usually controls what 2 outs you have mapped to the card).
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 7:17 PM, david <gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com
<mailto:gnome@hawaii.rr.com>> wrote:
And my friend tried envy24control and reported
this:
"I installed alsa-tools-gui, and the envy24control tool was
impressive,
but had no master volume control, whether in
digital mixer mode,
or not.
It has a master monitor mode, but no master
volume."
R Dicaire wrote:
> envy24control is the m-audio mixer, have him check his distros
> repository for it, it might be part of a package called
alsa-tools-gui
> (debian, and possibly ubuntu).
>
> On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 5:19 PM, david <gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com
<mailto:gnome@hawaii.rr.com>> wrote:
>> A friend of mine, who is an audiophile
but doesn't make
music, is using
>> one with his Linux server (among other
things, it serves
audio into
>> their stereo system). He tells me
there's no master volume
control for
>> the card. He's tried KMix (no use
whatever) and is now using
alsamixer
>> (but no master volume control). Anyway
to get a master
volume control
> for
that card?
Brett McCoy wrote:
> Use the envy24control tool (it's designed specifically for the
M-Audio
> Audiophile and Delta interfaces), it has
volume controls for
all of
> the channels plus a master volume if you
are in digital mixer
mode.
Step by step instructions:
1) Open envy24control.
2) Switch to the "Patchbay / Router" tab.
3) Select "Digital Mix L" in the "H/W Out 1 (L)" channel strip and
"Digital Mix R" in the "H/W Out 2 (R)" strip.
4) Switch to the "Monitor PCMs" tab.
5) "L/R Gang", rise the fader and unmute "Left" and "Right"
in both the
"PCM Out 1" and "PCM Out 2" channel strip.
The "Digital Mix" setting will mix down all PCMs to a stereo pair and
output it on H/W Out 1 and 2.
You should now have sound, but at a much lower level than when you had
"PCM Out 1" and "PCM Out 2" selected in the "Patchbay /
Router", so you
might want to raise the volume output level in the application that is
supposed to make some sound.
--
David
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